Posted on 09/30/2009 11:46:34 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The Anti-Defamation League, the country's leading group dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism, is rightly sensitive to the offense of trivializing the Holocaust. Why, then, has the ADL said nothing in protest against the Darwinian biologist and bestselling atheist author Richard Dawkins and his comparison of Darwin doubters to Holocaust deniers?...
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Don’t assume everyone needs the same meds as you do, Wacko.
OK, so you got the Islam part of your ‘atheists love islamofacists ....’ thing covered with your quote, but you haven’t quite explained how that relates to atheism.
Atheists, btw, don’t worship Satan.
Again, no evidence presented either way.. just a wild swing and a miss...
Is it really so hard for you to stay on topic?
Modern Satanist groups (those which appeared after the 1960s) are widely diverse, but two major trends which can be seen are Theistic Satanism and Atheistic Satanism. Theistic Satanists venerate Satan as a supernatural deity.
==Atheists, btw, don’t worship Satan.
I don’t know about worshipping Satan, but there are indeed Satanic atheists:
`In contrast, Atheistic Satanists[1] consider themselves atheists and regard Satan as merely symbolic of certain human traits. This categorization of Satanism (which could be categorized in other ways, for example “Traditional” versus “Modern”), is not necessarily adopted by Satanists themselves, who usually would not specify which type of Satanism they adhere to. Some Satanists believe in God in the sense of a Prime Mover but, like Atheistic Satanists, still worship themselves, due to the Deist belief that God plays no part in mortal lives.`
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanism
Ooops, sorry ZC...my last was meant for Ari-Freedom.
Not at all, and there is plenty more where that came from. Let me know when you want to have a serious debate about the issue. Trust me, you will lose.
Not the way you twist up the facts. Never going to happen.
You can’t even pick a single definition of ‘islamist’ or islamofacisist without churning out a dozen strawmen and weak anecdotes.
This post is perfect for you...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351795/posts
Like I said, if you ever want to throw down, I’d be glad to set up a debate thread, where I will demonstrate just how often terrorist acts are carried out by secular revolutionary evolutionists...just like you.
This “Richard Dawkins” isn’t very bright, is he? It’s like the great Gore Vidal. His beliefs seem to be cookie-cut out of the vapid Hollywood mindless-set.
These people get over-rated.
Haven’t you heard, your fellow evo-religious fanatics are far more likely to believe in alien abductions, haunted houses, Bigfoot, the Lock Ness Monster, etc. than just about any other grouping in the country...LOL!!!
Wall Street Journal
Look Who’s Irrational Now
By Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
...The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won’t create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far from it: It might actually encourage new levels of mass superstition. And that’s not a conclusion to take on faith — it’s what the empirical data tell us.
“What Americans Really Believe,” a comprehensive new study released by Baylor University yesterday, shows that traditional Christian religion greatly decreases belief in everything from the efficacy of palm readers to the usefulness of astrology. It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians.
The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Will creatures like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster someday be discovered by science?
The answers were added up to create an index of belief in occult and the paranormal. While 31% of people who never worship expressed strong belief in these things, only 8% of people who attend a house of worship more than once a week did.
Even among Christians, there were disparities. While 36% of those belonging to the United Church of Christ, Sen. Barack Obama’s former denomination, expressed strong beliefs in the paranormal, only 14% of those belonging to the Assemblies of God, Sarah Palin’s former denomination, did. In fact, the more traditional and evangelical the respondent, the less likely he was to believe in, for instance, the possibility of communicating with people who are dead.
This is not a new finding. In his 1983 book “The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener,” skeptic and science writer Martin Gardner cited the decline of traditional religious belief among the better educated as one of the causes for an increase in pseudoscience, cults and superstition. He referenced a 1980 study published in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer that showed irreligious college students to be by far the most likely to embrace paranormal beliefs, while born-again Christian college students were the least likely.
Surprisingly, while increased church attendance and membership in a conservative denomination has a powerful negative effect on paranormal beliefs, higher education doesn’t. Two years ago two professors published another study in Skeptical Inquirer showing that, while less than one-quarter of college freshmen surveyed expressed a general belief in such superstitions as ghosts, psychic healing, haunted houses, demonic possession, clairvoyance and witches, the figure jumped to 31% of college seniors and 34% of graduate students.
We can’t even count on self-described atheists to be strict rationalists. According to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s monumental “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” that was issued in June, 21% of self-proclaimed atheists believe in either a personal God or an impersonal force. Ten percent of atheists pray at least weekly and 12% believe in heaven.
On Oct. 3, Mr. Maher debuts “Religulous,” his documentary that attacks religious belief. He talks to Hasidic scholars, Jews for Jesus, Muslims, polygamists, Satanists, creationists, and even Rael — prophet of the Raelians — before telling viewers: “The plain fact is religion must die for man to live.”
But it turns out that the late-night comic is no icon of rationality himself. In fact, he is a fervent advocate of pseudoscience. The night before his performance on Conan O’Brien, Mr. Maher told David Letterman — a quintuple bypass survivor — to stop taking the pills that his doctor had prescribed for him. He proudly stated that he didn’t accept Western medicine. On his HBO show in 2005, Mr. Maher said: “I don’t believe in vaccination. . . . Another theory that I think is flawed, that we go by the Louis Pasteur [germ] theory.” He has told CNN’s Larry King that he won’t take aspirin because he believes it is lethal and that he doesn’t even believe the Salk vaccine eradicated polio.
Anti-religionists such as Mr. Maher bring to mind the assertion of G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown character that all atheists, secularists, humanists and rationalists are susceptible to superstition: “It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can’t see things as they are.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122178219865054585.html
How is that germane to post # 10?
Wonderfully cherry picked editorial (opinion, not facts). You should be so proud.
PS In case you're wondering, yes the UCC endorses Darwood's evo-atheist creation myth.
Still has nothing to do with atheists.
If you read Darwin you may see that he didn't think strict biological natural selection was important for us. He thought that social cohesiveness, regardless of physical traits, is what makes one society stronger than another. Specifically, he wrote about "sympathy." The more sympathetic society, the one that helps the weakest among it, will be more socially cohesive and thus will be stronger in the long run.
It's pretty much a direct argument against abortion and eugenics.
For an example, just look at the Christian world. Christian societies are much more sympathetic overall than Muslim ones, and if it weren't for the freak accident of sitting on a gold mine of oil, the Muslim world would still be globally irrelevant. Yet we're not physically superior to them, only socially.
Richard Dawkins has attacked the "old testament G-d" as "arguably the most unsympathetic character in world literature." Did you hear the ADL make a peep? The ADL sees the "old testament G-d" as a "chr*stian" Deity, perhaps personally responsible for the Holocaust.
“Atheists, btw, don’t worship Satan.”
no, but they sure seem to have no problem with those who want to destroy traditional morality. I would love to see a prominent atheist condemn abortion, pre-marital sex and perverted alternative lifestyles but I highly doubt that such a being exists.
Wal-Mart has glasses too (at least the one by me). #20 was a remark about GGG’s ranting in post #19, NOT #10.
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